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Story of a Terrible Drawing: The Relaunch
This creative nonfiction short story, originally published in 2014, has been relaunched! I thought it would be nice to offer my readers a few free copies as reintroduction (well, it’s also what you’re supposed to do when you’re an unknown author, right?) [laughs nervously]. So, I have a promotion going from February 14 thru the 18th, the first 10 copies are free on Smashwords only! For Kindle, iBooks, and other platforms, see links of your preference below. It’s not free on those reading platforms, but it really is only a few pennies. I unpublished this book a year after being published because I later realized it was a little rushed. I just…
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A Walk in the (Snowy) Park
We met on a social media comment section of a popular page. Arguing about each other’s point of view, we took the angry exchange to direct messaging. Well, he DM-ed me first. He said he was sorry if he came off as too aggressive, but he wanted to end the convo in good terms because I “seemed like a cool girl.” Oh here we go… I thought. I sent him a thumbs-up emoji and wrote, “no hard feelings.” I meant it. After a couple of days, when things calmed down on that page and I thought this crazy guy had gone away, I woke up to a ton of “likes” by…
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Dig a little deeper, from another angle
I am highly inspired by the inspired, and the inspiring; by the extraordinary and the sublime; by confidence and humility. And thankfully, we can find that kind of inspiration all around us. Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper, look a little closer — perhaps from a different angle.
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Mister Cool Guy: A Poem
Can’t you see, girl? I’m trying to get to you, Doing crazy things that only artists do A shadow of your posts appears on my feed, my keyboard gets all eager, girl, A tweet I must set free I try to play it cool, pretend your face don’t matter, date one here and there, but low-key it’s you I’d rather. My style, very different for an erudite like you don’t deny yourself the pleasure of calling me your beau
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Earth For Days
When celebrating Earth, I’m always reminded of two things: 1) We’re all citizens of this planet, so let us stop calling other humans “illegal.” And 2) Without Earth, there’s no us — let’s do all we can to keep it clean and take better care of it. Astronomer Carl Sagan’s beautiful famous words on Earth, Pale Blue Dot, are a good reminder of our place in the vast Universe. Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering,…
